FOR LOVERS OF WORDS(一組諧音雙關句)

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FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)
    這些英語句子大多運用了諧音雙關的修辭方法,又融合了腦筋急轉彎的因素,讀起來趣味十足,又能從中體會到英語的魅力!大家試試看:
    1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
    2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
    3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
    4. A backward poet writes inverse.
    5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your
    count that votes.
    6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
    7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
    8. If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
    9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
    10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat
    minor.
    11. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
    12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
    13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum
    Blownapart.
    14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
    15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
    16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
    17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
    18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
    19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
    20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
    21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
    22. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium
    at large.
    23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the
    end.
    24. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
    25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
    26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought
    she'd dye.
    27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
    28. Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.
    29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
    30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.